₦airaland Forum

roqchiq:
I don't understand all the noise APC is making over Senate Presidency. I thought the Legislative is supposed to check the activities of the Executive. This should be the change preached by the party. The way I see it, we now have a Legislative not tied to any one party.
Lai Mohammed is talking about the development not going to support the party's agenda, How?? Is it the APC's agenda or Nigerian Agenda that is at stake
Is it a National Assembly or a Party Assembly
Frankly, both PDP and APC should park well, nobody should own the Assembly, it is a National Assembly.

Now we have a National Assembly, they should focus on Nigerian Agenda and not on PDP or APC agenda.....fullstop!!!
The C in C, has pledged to work with the leaders, that is enough.

EUROBOMBER:
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Superstar1

BuddahMonk

superstar1:
Politics is a war and not a battle.

In a war, there are many battles and alignment are done per time, based on the battle and actors at that point in time.

No one can cage anybody. Those guys are political elites, they are all know themselves very well --- each individuals weakness, strengths, sins and crimes.

OBJ defeated PMB, Tinubu betrayed PMB, Tinubu betrayed Atiku for PMB, and all still worked together for PMB's emergence as president. Saraki betrayed PDP and he also just betrayed APC.
Who is deceiving who? It is the chess game of the elites with the slogan of "no permanent foe, no permanent friend, only self interest is constant ".

It is the masses that should learn to see through them all.

Buhari has said the most important thing ---"he will work with whoever emerged as the leadership of the 2 houses".

Our personal prayer should be, God Almighty will favour and bless each and every one of us in this new dispensation.

Mind you, I have never been a supporter of any party, but a supporter of good governance and visionary leadership that detest corruption.

omenka:
Buhari has never been the ethnocentric guy or religious bigot PDP tried to paint him to be. It was all a ruse to dissuade voters from supporting and voting for him. They took this so far Nigerians had to exhume a list of his cabinet members when he was the military HOS, and to people's surprise, he had more Christians than Muslims, and the tribes were more or less evenly spread.

Buhari would work with competent hands, but I know he's still try to maintain a balance between the ethnic groups. Ultimately, what he wants, and we desire is a peaceful and prosperous country.

Long live Nigeria.

hahn:
So, the same people who painted him as a religious bigot by leading us to assume he had a majority of muslim official in his previous cabinet became more satisfied when they discovered that he actuall had more christian official in his cabinet. Isn't that religious bigotism in itself?

During the campaigns, if Buhari had attended as much mosques services as GEJ had visited churches he would have been labelled a bigot for that. Since when did Nigeria become a christian country?

Classic

omenka:
Buhari has never been the ethnocentric guy or religious bigot PDP tried to paint him to be. It was all a ruse to dissuade voters from supporting and voting for him. They took this so far Nigerians had to exhume a list of his cabinet members when he was the military HOS, and to people's surprise, he had more Christians than Muslims, and the tribes were more or less evenly spread.

Buhari would work with competent hands, but I know he's still try to maintain a balance between the ethnic groups. Ultimately, what he wants, and we desire is a peaceful and prosperous country.

Long live Nigeria.

Orunto:
[s]Buhari won't dare. Those ones are as free as birds.[/s]

EUROBOMBER:
All Buhari needed was to find a way of throwing off the burning and dead weight of Tinubu, Obasanjo & Atiku and that is exactly what he has done.

EUROBOMBER:
All Buhari needed was to find a way of throwing off the burning and dead weight of Tinubu, Obasanjo & Atiku and that is exactly what he has done.

idu1:
I told in one certain thread that, u and your igbo brothers are hypocrite u were fighting me...


Buhari is not a dullard again

EUROBOMBER:
I now understand Buhari's statement that he belongs to nobody. Recent events since Buhari took over as president has shown that he his ready to work for the progress of Nigeria and not allowed himself to be used as a puppet by anybody.

Buhari has ensured that the Halliburton bribery case is reopened and we know that a thorough investigation of this matter will bring troubles for Obasanjo & Atiku. With this singular move, Buhari has successfully boxed Obasanjo & Atiku into a corner; they have to shut up and allow Buhari do his thing the way he wants or end up being humiliated and even end up in prison.

https://www.nairaland.com/2367828/reopening-halliburton-bribery-case-good

With what happened in the National Assembly yesterday, Tinubu's wings have been chopped off and he is no longer as politically relevant as he used to be. As it stands now, Buhari and the north have gotten what they want from Tinubu and he is now considered expendable material. Tinubu has been effectively boxed into a corner. don't be too happy yet

https://www.nairaland.com/2369230/tinubus-political-career-over-bode

God bless Nigeria!

roqchiq:
I don't understand all the noise APC is making over Senate Presidency. I thought the Legislative is supposed to check the activities of the Executive. This should be the change preached by the party. The way I see it, we now have a Legislative not tied to any one party.
Lai Mohammed is talking about the development not going to support the party's agenda, How?? Is it the APC's agenda or Nigerian Agenda that is at stake
Is it a National Assembly or a Party Assembly
Frankly, both PDP and APC should park well, nobody should own the Assembly, it is a National Assembly.

Now we have a National Assembly, they should focus on Nigerian Agenda and not on PDP or APC agenda.....fullstop!!!
The C in C, has pledged to work with the leaders, that is enough.

chamboy:
Eurobomber I love ur script

EUROBOMBER:
Thank you, this is just the fact. Some children like Chowlade have chosen to bury their heads in the sand.

EUROBOMBER:
Buhari is a Fulani General and not some timid Jonathan from a minority tribe. It's like you think he will be like Jonathan who had all the powers of a GCFR but couldn't use them. Wake up! Things have changed.

Hausa/Fulani is in power now not Ijaw.

EUROBOMBER:
But Buhari can use the Halliburton case to mess him up; this will effectively check him. Buhari also has the support of the West on this.

AhmedMustapha:
I thought you never wanted any man from the North because Jonathan was from a smaller section of the country. Now just after a week the song has changed and Jonathan is now TIMID?

Shymm3x:
EUROBOMBER

Lol, I honestly don't think Buhari caged anyone. If anything, he just showed he's a spineless leader that can be pushed around, and that there are many structures within the party. And he's not in control. What happened yesterday was a dirty coup of power-play orchestrated by the Northern oligarchy within the party - and I believe he was carried along. Trust the other structure within the party to plot a counter-coup cos I don't expect them to give in easily, after everything they invested in it - unless they're weaklings. Not even two weeks into the new government and, Buhari has failed his first major test and it might end up consuming the party. A man who can't control simple politics within his own party, thus allowing free-for-all is a weakling. I don't expect all these APC e-rats to see that cos all they care about is getting their crumbs and screaming "Sai Buhari" everywhere like bleating goats, till their party collapses before their eyes.

Furthermore, when you look at the way and manner in which the whole shebang was effected, you just have to laugh. Never in the history of politics in the world (at least since I've been following politics in the West from a young age) has the opposition, which also is the minority in the parliament, imposed a leader on the majority. It's very undemocratic. That's what happened yesterday and it shows PDP also controls a structure within APC (the Northern oligarchy), thus setting a precedence for a one-party state. And that's very problematic.


Also, on the international scene, I also have mixed feelings about Buhari's unending cosy "romantic" photo-ops with the West. Yes, the West played a big role in his election (I know a lot of APC rats would disagree, but if you know, you know - if you don't, keep living), and he definitely owes them something cos nothing is free when the beast is the unseen hands. However, with the changing dynamics of the world and, emerging of BRICS (the GDP of BRICS should leap-out G7 in 2-3 years) and other blocs - the country ought to maintain neutrality on the outside, and do whatever it wants to do with the West without over-publicising it. Perhaps, that's the reason why China stopped buying Nigerian oil. Sitting next to David Cameron and Obama everywhere, with photo-ops is somewhat troubling and uncomfortable.

Anyway, he has failed his first major test and it shows the party isn't under his control.

bewla:
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EUROBOMBER:
Brilliant submissions there. What happened to your Sirshymexx handle?

cc

Shymm3x:
Lol, "sirshymexx" is cotching and smoking backy in e-jail. The cabal of mods/supermods locked it up for two months, for no reason. But they can't keep the black man down and it should be back shooting slugs soon.

Anyway, in as much as Buhari will be perform better than GEJ - he never had what it takes to turn Nigeria around, though he might be a decent man. But all the over-blown disciplinarian posturing is for gullible folks. Then you have the structure that can never let good governance permeate to the people. And he just showed he's a weakling since the party structure isn't in his hands. A good leader would've called the warring factions together - and get everyone to make concessions, so as to present a united front to the opposition. He never did that and APC folks just showed themselves out as clowns, with the structure from PDP also in control of APC. Buhari isn't in control. That was why I was laughing at the clowns touting the non-existent Nigerian "exceptionalism" on the Zimbabwean thread - and I still don't see how Nigerian "democracy" is different from Zimbabwe's. The smoke has started clearing and folks will get the bigger picture soon.

As for the Tinubu man, ol'boy was just living in his own fantasy world by being overbearing in national politics. He doesn't have the numbers to compete with the Northern oligarchs and the earlier he starts making concessions, the better for him - else they'll shut him out completely. The North owns Nigeria. But if he can get OBJ firmly on his team, that might be his holy-grail to at least put up a decent fight. However, he might have to take one for the team for the sake of Nigerians and for the APC cos this doesn't look like it's going to end well.

Regardless, fvck all of them and the dream they're selling to gullible Nigerians - they're all rogues. APC/PDP - two sides to the same coin. And also watch-out for the SE - the Northern oligarchs are coming for you lot as well when they settle down into their ordained seats as the owners of Nigeria. They won't let BH slide like that.

EUROBOMBER:
The bold part is so true.

Don't you think that Buhari was part of the plan to have Saraki installed as Senate president to check Tinubu's influence?

What has the SE got to do with BH? BH started under late President yar'Adua. Besides, the BH problem is yet to be solved as they are still going around blasting people to pieces all over North even with Buhari as president..